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<blockquote data-quote="Stocker Steve" data-source="post: 835037" data-attributes="member: 1715"><p>Compaction on clay is a tough one. I have it too. Lots of grazing experts brag about never renovating - - but I think they may have cheap rent and often have thin soil so their options are very different from good deeded farm land. </p><p></p><p>Calculating the optimum time for renovating depends on productivity of your stand, your renovation costs, and the the crop value. There are some on line alfalfa/corn rotation calculators that are a good starting point.</p><p></p><p>"Lay farming" makes sense in average or better soils. Here you take a crop yield hit if you do not moldboard plow. Not totally sure why - - could be due to low OM. My latest approach is to out winter, plow, crop, and then reseed one paddock per year on the deeded place.</p><p></p><p>They was some data that showed renovated pasture productivity decreased for about 10 years and then started to increase again. Again, not sure why :???:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stocker Steve, post: 835037, member: 1715"] Compaction on clay is a tough one. I have it too. Lots of grazing experts brag about never renovating - - but I think they may have cheap rent and often have thin soil so their options are very different from good deeded farm land. Calculating the optimum time for renovating depends on productivity of your stand, your renovation costs, and the the crop value. There are some on line alfalfa/corn rotation calculators that are a good starting point. "Lay farming" makes sense in average or better soils. Here you take a crop yield hit if you do not moldboard plow. Not totally sure why - - could be due to low OM. My latest approach is to out winter, plow, crop, and then reseed one paddock per year on the deeded place. They was some data that showed renovated pasture productivity decreased for about 10 years and then started to increase again. Again, not sure why :???: [/QUOTE]
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